> We are not sheep. Not part of a herd. <
Consider the federal income tax. It was introduced slowly and gradually. Then the next thing you know, we are paying 20% or more of our income to the federal government. We are now working at least one day out of every five for the government.
The Founders would have been horrified by this. But we are not. Maybe we really are sheep. Depressing, I know.
Slowly boiling frogs in a pot so they'll accept it without jumping out. Same for sales tax. Start with it at 1 or 2 or 3 percent and slowly increase it over time. We're now paying 10 percent in my area for sales tax. And getting fewer services for our sales tax. Social Security income wasn't taxed, and now it is. And so on. Government is screwing us over, little by little over time, and people are slowly waking up. But nothing changes.
Society is changing for the worse, little by little, and people are complaining, but things will still get worse.